Pinnacle 800e help

[jgc2521]

Hi, I have a pinnacle 800e usb tv card and i am trying to get it running with gbpvr, but am having a problem setting it up in the capture config. I've looked through the walkthroughs and everything but can't capture a signal. also when i click the show connected hardware only button it shows different pinnacle products but not the 800e. btw i've tried all the different pinnacle products on the list and none of them showed a picture. any help is appreciated thansks guys

[whurlston]

What OS are you using and what driver version? Run filtercheck.exe and zip and post the resulting filtercheck.log.

[jgc2521]

Windows Xp Professional SP3

Pinnacle PCTV 800e
Driver Date: 9/12/08
Driver Version: 5.2008.912.0

[jgc2521]

11:14:13.765 INFO Log started
11:14:13.765 INFO Filter Check v1.0
11:14:13.765 INFO
11:14:13.765 INFO
11:14:13.765 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_CAPTURE filters
11:14:13.796 INFO found: PCTV 330e/8x0e Device
11:14:13.968 INFO - (output) Capture
11:14:13.968 INFO - (input) Analog Video In
11:14:13.968 INFO - (output) Audio
11:14:13.968 INFO - (input) Analog Audio In
11:14:13.968 INFO
11:14:13.968 INFO
11:14:13.968 INFO
11:14:13.968 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_ENCODER filters
11:14:13.968 INFO
11:14:13.968 INFO
11:14:13.968 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_CROSSBAR filters
11:14:13.984 INFO found: PCTV 330e/8x0e WDM Crossbar
11:14:14.000 INFO - (input) 0: Video Tuner In
11:14:14.000 INFO - (input) 1: Video Composite In
11:14:14.000 INFO - (input) 2: Video SVideo In
11:14:14.000 INFO - (input) 3: Audio Tuner In
11:14:14.000 INFO - (input) 4: Audio Line In
11:14:14.000 INFO - (output) 0: Video Decoder Out
11:14:14.000 INFO - (output) 1: Audio Decoder Out
11:14:14.000 INFO
11:14:14.000 INFO
11:14:14.000 INFO
11:14:14.000 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_TVTUNER filters
11:14:14.000 INFO found: PCTV 330e/8x0e WDM TVTuner
11:14:14.078 INFO - (output) Analog Video
11:14:14.078 INFO - (output) Analog Audio
11:14:14.078 INFO
11:14:14.078 INFO
11:14:14.078 INFO
11:14:14.078 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_TVAUDIO filters
11:14:14.078 INFO found: PCTV 330e/8x0e WDM TVAudio
11:14:14.078 INFO - (input) TVAudio In
11:14:14.078 INFO - (output) TVAudio Out
11:14:14.078 INFO
11:14:14.078 INFO
11:14:14.078 INFO
11:14:14.078 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_VBICODEC filters
11:14:14.093 INFO found: NABTS/FEC VBI Codec
11:14:14.125 INFO - (input) VBI
11:14:14.125 INFO - (output) NABTS
11:14:14.125 INFO - (input) HWNABTS
11:14:14.125 INFO
11:14:14.125 INFO found: CC Decoder
11:14:14.140 INFO - (input) VBI
11:14:14.140 INFO - (output) CC
11:14:14.140 INFO - (input) HWCC
11:14:14.140 INFO
11:14:14.140 INFO found: WST Codec
11:14:14.156 INFO - (input) VBI
11:14:14.156 INFO - (output) Teletext
11:14:14.156 INFO
11:14:14.156 INFO
11:14:14.156 INFO
11:14:14.171 INFO Checking KSCATEGORY_BDA_NETWORK_TUNER filters
11:14:14.171 INFO found: PCTV 330e/8x0e BDA TVTuner
11:14:14.187 INFO - (input) Input0
11:14:14.187 INFO - (output) MPEG2 Transport
11:14:14.187 INFO
11:14:14.187 INFO
11:14:14.187 INFO
11:14:14.187 INFO Checking KSCATEGORY_BDA_RECEIVER_COMPONENT filters
11:14:14.187 INFO found: BDA Slip De-Framer
11:14:14.203 INFO - (input) NABTS
11:14:14.203 INFO - (output) IPv4
11:14:14.203 INFO
11:14:14.203 INFO found: BDA MPE Filter
11:14:14.218 INFO - (input) MPE
11:14:14.218 INFO - (output) IPv4
11:14:14.218 INFO
11:14:14.218 INFO found: PCTV 330e/8x0e BDA Capture
11:14:14.218 INFO - (input) MPEG2 Transport
11:14:14.218 INFO - (output) MPEG2 Transport
11:14:14.218 INFO

[whurlston]

If you check the box that says "Show only installed devices", you should select the second "Pinnacle PCTV 800e" entry. Also, are you tuning OTA or QAM? If it's QAM, there may be another entry that you need to add (see below) and a change to the registry might be needed.

If you are tunning OTA, zip and post the logs after running scan.

Additonal QAM entires for the 800e based devices:

Code:

[Pinnacle PCTV 800e (QAM)]
TUNING_TYPE=ATSC
TUNING_SPECIAL=2
FILTER_TUNER=PCTV 330e/800e BDA TVTuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=PCTV 330e/800e BDA Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

[Pinnacle PCTV HD Ultimate Stick]
TUNING_TYPE=ATSC
FILTER_TUNER=PCTV 330e/8x0e BDA TVTuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=PCTV 330e/8x0e BDA Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

Note to sub: There are two "Pinnacle PCTV 800e" entries (same name) but different filter entries. The second can be removed since the filter entries are exactly the same as the "Pinnacle PCTV HD Ultimate Stick":

Code:

[Pinnacle PCTV HD Ultimate Stick]
TUNING_TYPE=ATSC
FILTER_TUNER=PCTV 330e/8x0e BDA TVTuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=PCTV 330e/8x0e BDA Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

[Pinnacle PCTV 800e]
TUNING_TYPE=ATSC
FILTER_TUNER=PCTV 330e/8x0e BDA TVTuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=PCTV 330e/8x0e BDA Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport